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How Pride Undermines the Joy of Confession
Confession is like the gateway to freedom. As we confess, repent, and own the wrong things that we have done, we move forward with a lightness of heart.
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Where Is God in My Loneliness?
Loneliness serves a purpose: it points us toward community and toward our heavenly Father.
#toxic - Why Is Our Culture So Reactive? (Reactivity Episode 1)
Paul Tripp discusses the toxic culture of reactivity full of anger, mockery, and disrespect that is so common to see on social media but also bleeds into our everyday relationships.
How Does God Feel toward Discouraged People?
God speaks tenderly toward Jerusalem. He's kind. He's patient. He's slow to anger. He's abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
What Is the Doctrine of Inseparable Operations?
All of God’s actions are one because God is one. All three persons are all the time acting as the one God because they are the one God.
The Greatest Problem with Our Shame
For most of my life, when I heard the word “shame” in the Bible or in life around me, I instinctively interpreted it as guilt. I thought of it as a strong synonym for guilt: guilt on steroids.
Why Your Identity Is Not the Same as Your Role
It is the temptation to find your identity in your role.
Beware of This Blindspot in the Christian Life
Why do some Christians—maybe why do many Christians—fail to experience a good life in the present?
How to Achieve Pastoral Success
Do the work set before you and trust that God will bear fruit.
3 Ways Wisdom Is Threatened in the Information Age
In our modern world, we're overwhelmed by information: too fast, too much, and too self-focused. And, it's crowding out our ability to think deeply.
In this video, Greg Gilbert explains why he wrote What is the Gospel?.
Don’t Disconnect These 3 Vital Facets of Scripture
We must read the Bible as history, theology, and literary artistry because there’s only one God who is doing all three things at the same time.
How Community Helps When Battling Loneliness
Church relationships, fellowship with other believers, and being involved in a local church are crucial.
How Believers Can Engage More Wholeheartedly in Congregational Singing
When we gather as the people of God, it’s more than just a people getting together in a room. It is a high and holy privilege to gather in the name of Jesus.
Two Possible Responses to Christ
When we read the Bible, we have a deep-seated instinct to look at particular characters and compare ourselves to them. We wonder, Is this someone I should try to emulate?
3 Ways You Can Ignite a Passion for Church Planting in Your Church
If you desire to spread a passion for church planting in your church, go to Scripture, partner with other churches, and pray, pray, pray.
What Bible Reading and Eating Have in Common
Devotional Bible reading is vital for every believer in the same way that eating is vital for every human—it's just the way you're nourished. It's what you do to get stronger and grow.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: Won’t God Accept Me Because of the Good Things I’ve Done?
It can be hard to recognize that we need to help those children who tend to be a little bit more like the older brother in the story of the prodigal son—the one that seems like they’re fairly compliant.
Overcoming Common Barriers to Bible Study (Women of the Word Episode 2)
Jen Wilkin identifies a handful of perceived obstacles that prevent us from studying the Bible and how we can actually overcome those and take joy in reading and studying God's word.
Why Your Church Is Not Exempt from the Work of Church Planting
It is important that every local church find some way to focus their ministry efforts on church planting.
We need to remember that the Bible is God's direct speech to us. His word is the source of wisdom. It is God himself speaking to us.
What Keeps God from Being a Megalomaniac?
One of the values of Christian Hedonism is that it answers the objection of why or how God can be so God-centered—because he manifestly is.
10 Bible Study Tools Every Christian Needs (Women of the Word Episode 8)
Jen Wilkin walks through different tools that can be used in the Bible study process and offers wisdom to help know when and how to best use them.
How Celebrity-Pastor Culture Impacts Pastors
We wrestle with this invitation to do a truly great thing by serving the least, while inside of us and outside of us, we're pressured to make much of ourselves.
What to Say to a Grieving Person
Sometimes it can be hard to know what to say to someone who is grieving. Yet there are helpful words we can give to people who are suffering—words that will actually help and encourage in the midst of grief.
Devote Yourself to Good Works Even When It’s Hard
We don’t just naturally fall into doing good. So we want to orient our lives in such a way that we’re positioned to practice generosity, to show hospitality to the lonely.
Why All Christians Should Expect Trouble
The longer you live in this fallen world, the more kinds of trouble you face.
Why Men Should Memorize the Psalms Together
There is something sweet that goes beyond just repeating the words of Scripture to each other but actually living in the good of God’s Word together.
How Parenting Kids with Special Needs Shifts Your Reality
In a sense, our story was really one of reconsidering every aspect of our lives.
The Blessings of a Frustrating Church
Frustration is part of the sanctification process that God intends for us in church.